David Miliband

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Today, @RESCUEorg releases its 2026 Emergency Watchlist, identifying the 20 countries most at risk of worsening humanitarian crises. The top countries on this year’s list offer stark examples of the devastating impact of what the IRC calls a “New World Disorder.”

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You can read the full speech here: https://t.co/d05AnvJv1c

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This year, we’ve seen far more coverage of the need for air conditioning in Europe than of the drought in Afghanistan, the desertification of the Sahel, or of food insecurity in Somalia.

This is exactly why we need to flip the conversation on climate change.

As IRC staff and clients know all too well, the life-threatening impacts of the climate crisis are already here. Now, what’s needed is the political will to address them.

This week, I made the case for urgent action for the world’s most vulnerable at @Independent's Climate 100 event.

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My takeaways from #UNGA this week:

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"Impunity is the exercise of power without accountability or responsibility. And when we look at the death toll of civilians in conflict around the world, you can see that this is an age of impunity."

@RESCUEorg CEO @DMiliband speaks to Amna Nawaz on the "new world disorder."

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From treating malnutrition to education, we know more about what works in the humanitarian sector than ever before. What we need is sustainable funding and investments in the programs that show results.

More in my appearance on @ABC: https://t.co/oIXyXqQCNl

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Conflict is the principal force determining whether any development target can be achieved, and it is the main driver of heightened levels of poverty and hunger around the world, writes @DMiliband. https://t.co/dPjMQsI1Si

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We know more about how to address the worst of extreme poverty and extreme hunger than ever before. But we also live in a world with more shocks and fewer shock absorbers.

I spoke with @jimsciutto on @CNN:

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The UN’s new secretary general will inherit an uncomfortable truth: the UN 's promise to end poverty, hunger, and disease is in retreat because today’s leaders are presiding over an era of multiple and growing forever wars.

Here’s how it can get back on track: https://t.co/5KB4imN2Yn

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Should we extend the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals?

Rather than giving up and “letting the SDGs die,” former British Foreign Secretary & @RESCUEorg CEO @DMiliband calls for a conversation on how to build an international system that leads to meaningful change.

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Question: How has the U.S. retreat from from foreign aid impacted humanitarian missions? Do fewer dollars mean more deaths?

@DMiliband, IRC: “Yes. The U.S. was the anchor of the global aid system….They have committed to keep some quote-unquote life-saving programs. But we know that the definition of that is very narrow indeed. And recent studies from Boston university and elsewhere show hundreds of thousands of people losing their lives.”

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"65 wars, 800M people in humanitarian need, 300M people hungry — let's not avert our eyes from that," @RESCUEorg CEO @DMiliband tells Amna Nawaz.

"Because this is a world that has more resources to do more good than any time in human history. So the fact that we're doing less good is an indictment."

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I don't think anyone could look at drought in Afghanistan or flooding in Somalia, and say climate change is a hoax.

Yet this year there has been much more coverage of the need for air conditioning in Europe than of any of these crises — this needs to change.

Today, I spoke on this and more at @Independent's #Climate100 event: https://t.co/vlTALwVAkD

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While the world is still far short of its targets, it’s still possible to narrow the gap. But now is the time to correct course and rethink our approach. More from the IRC’s latest report: https://t.co/D2VKyuyOct

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This year's UN General Assembly comes with a sobering statistic: the world is on track to hit just 15% of its goals to end poverty, hunger and disease.

There's a clear reason for that.

#UNGA #UNGA81

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Second, we’ll need a different kind of framework that puts conflict at the center. It should also have fewer goals, a shorter timeline, and money committed upfront instead of promised for later.

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The UN General Assembly should be a moment when the world comes together. Yet today, fracture and fragmentation are dominant.

I spoke with @NPRKelly about #UNGA in an age of more shocks and fewer shock absorbers, and what I'll be looking for next week: https://t.co/0iwDQndTeI

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More shocks and fewer shock absorbers is a recipe for instability at best and disaster at worst. Listen to my case in my conversation with Gideon Rachman: https://t.co/yNnmlARlJt

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Today, 22 million people in Afghanistan are in humanitarian need. Yet while the crisis deepens, aid cuts have slashed resources and it's only getting harder to deliver aid to the Afghan people.

I joined @morning_joe to discuss: https://t.co/o5XaKEwQFZ